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Example sentences for "unperceived"

Lexicographically close words:
unpatriotic; unpaved; unpeace; unpenetrated; unpeopled; unperceiving; unperformed; unperplexed; unperturbed; unperverted
  1. I mentioned the circumstance to no one, but, day after day, I was an unperceived witness of this scene.

  2. Of an old newspaper he made a fool’s cap, and, unperceived by me, placed it upon my head.

  3. The water was brought, and as the man walked away a sign unperceived by all but Collins, gave him to understand that his appeal had been understood.

  4. We mean not only that, since what we perceive does exist, the unperceived thing probably exists too; we mean also that we have some reason for asserting this connection between the perceived and the unperceived.

  5. It was Mary, original of the photograph, who had run unperceived into the drawing-room.

  6. And the fact that the change from the young girl to the stout ageing woman is made up of an infinite number of infinitesimal changes, each unperceived by her, only intensifies the pathos.

  7. Some one had, unperceived by her, followed her respectfully all the way, ready to protect her at all hazards.

  8. Thus he bore her to the galley, and the men having resumed their places on the rowers' banks, in silent order they pushed off unperceived by any one on the island, for it was the hour of the noontide rest.

  9. Mrs. Boyce could not help an unperceived shrug of the shoulders, and a movement of pity towards the future husband.

  10. Wharton listened a while to her talk with Minta, smiled a little, unperceived of Marcella, at the young mother's docilities of manner and phrase; then turned his attention to the little hunched and coughing object by the fire.

  11. This movement, by which the main body was much strengthened, was effected unperceived by the enemy, and the 39th and 43d regiments only left at Berville.

  12. I pretended to spit out the wine with disgust, and took an opportunity unperceived of emptying the liquor into the Vase.

  13. Favoured by the Trees which shaded it, and unperceived by Theodore who waited at a little distance, She had approached in silence, and overheard our whole conversation.

  14. It was fortunate it was as it happened afterwards, that you were able to reach the wood, and get out of it unperceived by the mob.

  15. Having approached near the gate, and they being on the other side, he got over without any noise, and, unperceived by either of them, crept close up to them.

  16. When he was seven years old, he would creep unperceived into the kitchen, to teach the servant to read and write; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed.

  17. Like flakes of snow that fall unperceived upon the earth, the seemingly unimportant events of life succeed one another.

  18. You can slip unperceived from the room, change the soiled for a fresh pair, and then avoid that mortification.

  19. No sooner arrived at the island- -' At this moment he was interrupted by the whiskered officer, who had entered unperceived behind him, and now laid a hand upon his shoulder.

  20. I scarce knew upon what grounds I acted; but I shaped my steps in the direction of that sound; and in a quarter of an hour's walking, came unperceived to the margin of an open glade.

  21. He performed this office, totally unperceived by this predestined victim; but his courage was subdued by her piety.

  22. Her Majesty placed it on her head, unperceived by the mob.

  23. The child wonders at a goblin story, the savage at a trinket, the man of science at an unexplained manifestation of a previously unperceived natural law; each wonders in ignorance, because of ignorance.

  24. Still kneeling on the ground, Pepe had closed his eyes, and a furtive tear, unperceived by his companions, stole from his eyes, and rolled down his bronzed cheeks.

  25. This incident passed almost unperceived amidst the confusion--every one being in so much danger as to be able to think only of himself.

  26. Our eaches, collected into one, are substantively identical with its all, tho the all is perfect while no each is perfect, so that we have to admit that new qualities as well as unperceived relations accrue from the collective form.

  27. Yet the remoter unperceived arrangements, temporal, spatial, and logical, of these contents, are also something that we need to know as well for the pleasure of the knowing as for the practical help.

  28. After a few seconds, whilst she was thus crying out, two tall women entered the room in silence, unperceived by Mdlle.

  29. Cardoville, the slide of the wicket in the door was softly pushed back, and a pair of eyes peered attentively into the chamber, unperceived by the doctor.

  30. The man with the sallow complexion still lingered in a corner of the room, unperceived by Rodin.

  31. A look of sudden alertness shot from the eyes of the detective, and he arrested the doctor's evident impatience by a quick shake of the head unperceived by the woman, who was addressing her narrative to the doctor, as was natural.

  32. Two days after this interview Doran dropped in at the doctor's office, and before he left had managed to put a newspaper, folded small, into the hands of the detective, quite unperceived by the other occupants of the room.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unperceived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.